The first duty of love is to listen.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life, the power of reunion of the separated.

Forgiving presupposes remembering.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements ... is a definite symptom of maturity.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is capable to express the ultimate.